Richard Judd, Ph.D. of New Britain, Connecticut, retired in 2004 as President of Central Connecticut State University, the state’s oldest public institution of higher education. He had worked in various capacities at Central for forty consecutive...

Interview conducted on 3-6-2006 by Robert Douglas with James O’Rourke of Cromwell, Connecticut. Mr. O’Rourke is serving his eighth term in the Connecticut House of Representatives representing the 32nd District. During the time of Lemon Law...

Interview conducted on 12-02-2008 by Dr. Jerold Duquette. Daniel J. Duffy served in the office of general research for over three decades. Mr. Duffy was the principal analyst assigned to the General Law Committee during the Lemon Law iniative in...

First interview conducted on 10-28-2003 by Robert Douglas with John J. Woodcock III of West Hartford, Connecticut. Woodcock, as a Connecticut State Representative from South Windsor, was the proponent of the first "Lemon Law" enacted in the United...

Edmund Mierzwinski, the consumer program director of U.S. PIRG in Washington, DC is a nationally recognized consumer advocate. Devoting his career to the administration of Public Interest Research Groups or “PIRG’s,” his public interest expertise...

Interview conducted on November 12, 2003 by Robert Douglas with John J. Woodcock III of West Hartford, Connecticut. Woodcock, as a Connecticut State Representative from South Windsor, was the proponent of the first "Lemon Law" enacted in the...

Second interview conducted on March 7, 2006 by Robert Douglas with Irving Stolberg of New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Stolberg served for 22 years in the Connecticut General Assembly’s House of Representatives, including four years as Speaker of the...

First interview conducted on February 15, 2006 by Robert Douglas with Irving Stolberg of New Haven, Connecticut. Mr. Stolberg served for 22 years in the Connecticut General Assembly’s House of Representatives, including four years as Speaker of...

Interview conducted on 5-17-2006 by Robert Douglas with Mary Heslin of Hartford, Connecticut. Under former Governor William A. O’Neill and at the time of Lemon Law passage, Ms. Heslin served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of...

Interview conducted on 12-27-2006 by Robert Douglas with Frank McLaughlin of Bowie, Maryland. Mr. McLaughlin’s long and distinguished career includes service as an attorney for the Federal Trade Commission, and over ten years in the White House in...

Interview conducted on 1-23-2007 by Robert Douglas with Judge Richard Rittenband of South Windsor, Connecticut. In his career as an attorney in the early years of the Lemon Law’s existence, Judge Rittenband had extensive experience litigating...

Interview conducted on 6-26-2007 by Steve Kliger with Raphael Podolsky. Podolsky is a long-time Hartford resident and a legal advocate with a learned understanding of our state’s political system. As secretary of the Legal Assistance Resource...

Interview conducted on 11-29-2007 by Dr. Jerold Duquette. Daniel G. Brochu is a lifelong resident of Connecticut, a former lemon owner and a model “citizen advocate”. At the time of the Connecticut Lemon Law’s enactment in 1982, Brochu...

Interview conducted on 12-06-2007 by Dr. Jerold Duquette with Rosemary Shahan. Ms. Shahan is the founder and president of Consumers for Auto Reliability and Safety (CARS). CARS is a national, award winning, non-profit auto safety and consumer...

Second interview with Edmund Mierzwinski, the consumer program director of U.S. PIRG in Washington, DC is a nationally recognized consumer advocate. Devoting his career to the administration of Public Interest Research Groups or "PIRG's" his public...

Interview conducted on 05-01-2008 by Dr. Jerold Duquette. John J. Zajac is a former state legislator who served as both state senator and representative for 20 years. He provided strong bipartisan support for the "Lemon Law" and its revision the...

Interview of Noel E. Tomas, conducted by Dr. Jerold Duquette on 01-24-2008. Tomas has had a long and varied career in public service. He has worked on the Commission on Aging, as an advocate for CT's elderly, the Commission for the Arts, and...